Antimicrobial resistance is a major global health threat, with significant regional disparities in resistance rates and surveillance participation. Gram-negative pathogens, such as Acinetobacter spp.

WHO’s director of antimicrobial resistance, Dr Yvan Hutin, says science needs to catch up with drug-resistant bacteria.

A growing number of bacteria have developed mechanisms which render them resistant to many of the antibiotics normally used for their treatment, and this antimicrobial resistance is being recognized ...

Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is director-general of the World Health Organization. At the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Thursday, all countries approved a major new political declaration to ...

As resistance to antibiotics grows, the World Health Organization (WHO) has launched the latest stage of its campaign to fight this deadly health risk – likened by the agency to an “invisible pandemic ...

In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly 75% of hospitalized COVID patients received antibiotics on admission, ...

A group of researchers has analyzed 1,240 wastewater samples from 351 cities in 111 different countries and found that bacterial latent antimicrobial resistance is widespread on all the world's ...

In the brutal world of deep caves, bacteria live in a miniature world of terror. The weapons they have evolved can defeat antibiotics – but now they are inspiring powerful new drugs.

Over the three decades that I have worked in animal health, I have borne witness to the mounting effects of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in animals. Just like in people, while bacterial infections ...

Antimicrobial resistance occurs when bacteria evolve mechanisms to survive drugs designed to kill them, such as antibiotics.